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Congress is about to take food away from hungry children.

BREAKING: Overnight, the U.S. Senate voted for a budget that literally takes food away from hungry children.
The budgets that have now passed both the House and Senate make deep, painful cuts to the food stamps program--called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP. ONE IN FIVE children in the U.S. depend on SNAP for their meals. These cuts would be devastating and threaten to kick MILLIONS off the program. But they aren't law yet--and we still have a chance to stop them from going into effect if we mount a major fight right now, before these cuts are set in stone in the next few weeks.

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This is the most cynical, disgusting move yet: Senate conservatives are holding hostage a bill to help human trafficking survivors--the majority of whom are women and girls--to advance their extremist anti-choice and anti-health agenda.
This bipartisan bill would increase penalties for those convicted of human slavery, smuggling, and sexual exploitation of victims, and use the money collected to help the survivors. But now Senate extremists won’t let it come to a vote unless it includes provisions to ban survivors' access to abortion care--even in the case of rape, incest, and when a survivor's health is in danger.

This is HUGE: the U.S. Senate is going to vote on legislation that could help significantly reduce sexual assault and intimate partner violence in schools across America. The Teach Safe Relationships Act will insure that age-appropriate, comprehensive information is presented to students in their high school health classes.

Women athletes broke records in 2011 when the Women's World Cup final became ESPN's most viewed and highest rated soccer match of all time. But six months from now, the women who will compete in the next World Cup will compete for less than half of what the male players made. WHAT?!

Now Republicans have gone too far. Last Thursday, House Republicans introduced legislation to require forced vaginal ultrasounds before receiving an abortion--or what many consider to be state-sponsored rape.

President Obama is doing what no president before him has ever done--he's endorsing paid sick days for ALL workers. Here’s why this is so important: 40% of private sector workers can't take even a single paid day off when they get sick or have to take care of an ill family member, and women are even less likely than men to have paid sick days.